I am a visual artist who loves to paint and to draw. I have two teaching credentials-mulitsubject with an art option and secondary education for art and english. Since 2009 I have been retired from full time teaching. I am an active member of MCAA in Ukiah and also the Ukiah Valley Artist Cooperative. In addition I have memberships in the DeYoung Museum and the Olive Hyde Art Center in Fremont. For the past six years I have taught preK-high school art classes for he GASP program.

My name is Chris Pugh, and I am an editorial and commercial photographer based in Ukiah, California where I am currently employed as the Chief Photographer at the Ukiah Daily Journal. In my work, I am focused on day-to-day news coverage and capturing the stories of life in Mendocino County. In 2010 I co-founded the Ukiah Photography Club and currently serve as club president. Outside of photography, I am known for my love of loose leaf tea, locally brewed craft beer, 80’s heavy metal music, and useless trivia knowledge.

Visual Arts

Elizabeth Raybee’s work has been exhibited at the San Francisco Crafts Museum, the National Jewish Museum, San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Gardens and Museo Italiano, Museum of Man in San Diego, Chicago’s Navy Pier and Ukiah’s Grace Hudson Museum. Her commissions include the San Francisco Arts Commission, Laguna Honda Hospital, Eden Housing Inc., The San Geronimo Valley Cultural Center, Willits Skate Park, Orr Hot Springs and numerous private homes. Her work has appeared in Bay Area newspapers, on the cover of Artweek Magazine, in television spots and in several contemporary mosaic books. Raybee continues to create residential works for people locally and out of the area.

Creekwood Studios is a fine art and art travel business. As a recently retired professor of art, Bob continues to produce and show original art. For nearly 20 years, he and his wife have arranged and led small, upscale, art and culture trips abroad.
Content, context and craft, the {“three C’s”} developed over decades of teaching is the technique Bob uses to help others understand and appreciate art and architecture. Bob makes both classical and contemporary work accessible to all. His vast knowledge of art processes is a unique approach to appreciating and understanding both art and culture
As a skilled teacher, lecturer, scholar and storyteller, Bob will enable you to advance whether you are a beginner or an advanced artist. His instruction will push you to higher levels of accomplishment. On past trips we have created paintings from ochres gathered from the ancient quarries of Roussillion. We have strolled the streets of Florence where the rivalries between the Medici and the Strozzi families shaped the Renaissance. We have shared an afternoon glass of wine before a classical concert at St. Nicolas Cathedral in Prague, and joined in a local party for dancing after a home cooked meal in our villa in Tuscany. These are but a few of the experiences Creekwood Studios has created with new experiences waiting to be made.

Schenck is an artist and retired museum curator. He was born and grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he also attended the California College of the Arts (BFA) and Mills College (MFA). He has held professional curatorial and arts-administration positions at the Walnut Creek Civic Arts Gallery; Kala Institute in Berkeley; Scottsdale (Arizona) Center for the Arts; Hearst Art Gallery at Saint Mary’s College in Moraga; Mendocino Arts Center in Mendocino; and the Grace Hudson Museum in Ukiah.

Janae is a visual artist, educator, chair of the Arts Council of Mendocino County, and co-owner of Organic Attire with her husband, Gary Stephens. She has a B.A. in Fine Arts, a Masters Degree in Arts Education, and a California teaching credential in visual art.
In addition to designing and creating her own line of organic cotton clothing, Janae also loves to paint. She has exhibited her acrylic paintings in the Bay Area and Mendocino County. Arts Council of Mendocino County members are able to enjoy a discount at Organic Attire. Please inquire!

Jewelry studio is open by appointment by calling 707 964 2787. After graduating from the University of California in Berkeley, Teplow taught French at Saratoga High School before entering the Peace Corps. She was assigned to teach in Togo, West Africa. In her village of Lama Kara she became acquainted with African trade beads which were actually millefiori beads that had been brought from the island of Murano in the Venetian Lagoon of Italy. Her first necklace consisted of those glass beads.
Returning to California she accepted a job teaching at the Summerhill School on Road 409 in Caspar. That house was used in the movie, “Over Board.” She began to teach the dances she had learned in West Africa and formed a dance company named “Ivory”. For 10 years Teplow was the founder and director of the acclaimed Mendocino Dance Series bringing dance companies from around the world to Cotton Auditorium. After her years of producing, she was asked to be the agent for La Tania, the world-class Flamenco dancer. She later promoted the jazz singer Scotty Wright and booked jazz acts into the Ocean Club at the Hill House.
In the 1990s she began teaching all subjects at Coastal Adult School for the Fort Bragg Unified School District. Rhoda shows her jewelry at many Mendocino County Art Fairs and the Artists’ Collective of Elk, the Dolphin Gallery, and the Gualala Art Center. Her body of work incorporates her own porcelain beads, brass from the Ashanti tribe, recycled glass beads from the Krobo tribe in Ghana, and pendants from Katmandu, Nepal.

Members of the Scotts Valley Band of Pomo Indians, Patricia Ray-Franklin along with her children, Tim (11), Joshua (9), and Sarah (6), make regalia to be worn while dancing. Patricia uses her craft to revitalize the culture of her tribe. Taught beading by her brother, Timothy Ray, Patricia has taught her children to bead.
Among their many activities in the community the Franklins also dance, sing and play traditional instruments. Tim, Joshua and Sarah integrate their sense of rhythm, patterns and colors in their paintings. Patricia has been inspired by her late Aunt Bonnie Elliott, who she watched as a young girl weave baskets and make regalia.
This is a unique opportunity to see dynamic art made by a family that is learning and sustaining the original cultures of Mendocino and Lake counties.

I’m an artist with a camera and a commercial photography business. I specialize in working with people to reveal their stories and capture imagery that promotes them and their work.
While I’ve been a picture taker since I was 8, when I began using a digital camera in 2008 I excelled in skill and technical ability at a rapid rate due to an unstoppable addiction to learning my craft. That’s when I became a picture maker.
I mentored with master photographers and took classes online and pretty much lived and breathed photography 24/7 in order to gain the technical skill and control to be able to pretty much realize any vision I wanted using my camera, lighting gear and sometimes Photoshop. Once I got past the technical stuff, it was time to figure out what I wanted to shoot.
My love of working with people and of learning who they are leant me to choosing lifestyle and portraiture as a focus for my work. I specialize in telling people’s stories through dynamic and vivid imagery. Whether winemakers, artisans, executives or the lone wolf running a business from their cabin on the coast, everyone has a story. I reveal those stories through lifestyle photography and portraiture. My work is all about visualizing together with my subjects and playing together to make the images they need to promote themselves, their work and their brand. People use these images for websites, brochures, magazine and jury submissions, social media, and anywhere someone would need to be represented professionally and artfully.
My college degree via Sonoma State University is in music and vocal performance. I have worked in the arts throughout my career as a performer, audio technician and through self expression in various artistic media. I chose to pursue photography after working many years as a sound designer and audio editor. My ears were not able to hear intricate tones anymore and I needed a different career path and had always been passionate as a photography hobbiest, so it was a natural choice.
I worked as a journalist for a local newspaper near Asheville, NC, writing exposés and in depth articles with accompanying photos about local community members. I went freelance as a photographer in 2011 and after trying and failing to maintain interest in many genres, I found that commercial photography specializing in people, portraits, and what people do (lifestyle) was my passion — and I am very passionate about what I do and how it can help others reach their goals. I also enjoy and pursue landscape and still life photography when I don’t have my lens pointed at a person.
As an educator, I teach Photoshop and Digital Photography, most recently at the Miami Ad School in San Francisco. I offer occasional workshops in basic photography and simple art captures and am available for one on one lessons.

Born in 1954. Studied textile design and high fashion. Interneship in window decoration at Hermes-Paris.
Currently working mostly in oil on canvas at my studio in Boonville. Represented by Erickson Fine Art in Healdsburg.

I came to Potter Valley in 1973 and live quite remotely near the Eel River. My garden, the natural beauty of Mendocino County, and the plants and animals that surround me give me the majority of my inspiration. I work primarily with watercolor and acrylics and love experimenting with mixed media. I’m in love with my experience with color as I paint, the mingling and mixing of colors on the page. And I love the total engagement that absorbs my full concentration in the process of painting. It’s transforming!

The common thread present in all of my work is a joyful playfulness.
My work puts the viewer, whatever their age, back in touch with some childhood feelings. I have seen individuals entering my exhibit with family members, obviously not wanting to be there, and within seconds, their attitude changes. Their eyes lighten up and their facial expression is transformed. They are obviously enjoying themselves.
My paintings are interactive, and require a participation from the viewer. There is a playful inter-action taking place.
I place cultural icons and other elements of contemporary popular culture into a new context to illustrate thought provoking social, political or cultural issues.
Below: – The King & The Duke – acrylic on wood panel – 22 x 37 inches (3 views of the same painting)
In my kinetic art, the image changes depending on your relative position to the painting. The gallery visitors are seen playfully walking back and forth in front of the painting to witness the transformations of the image. In other paintings, the viewer can physically transform the overall image into a myriad of possibilities.
My work is extremely detailed, packed with hidden whimsical information that can only reveal itself upon scrutiny.
Using a bright palette, I paint in acrylic on multi-faceted wood structures.
Below: Nuns with Guns – acrylic on wood panel – 37 x 37 inches – (3 sides on 1 photo)
My goal is to provoke an element of surprise, and transmit playfulness and whimsy to the viewer.
Watch the video presentation of my latest work:
https://www.facebook.com/richard.weiss.942
– Animated slide show of pen work:
Watch the trailer and selected scenes from my film The Book: https://www.youtube.com/user/thebookthemovie/featured
– Short morphing video created for The Book – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcVQAFSc8wM&spfreload=10
*- The Book website: http://www.thebook-themovie.com/
* – Alejandro Jodorowsky: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0423524/
My work encompasses painting, sculpting, pencil work, music, film and animation.
Here is a sample of my work in these different disciplines.
Music:
I created Dédicace, a conceptual album reuniting internationally known musicians from four continents.
Cult film director Alejandro Jodorowsky used Dédicace extensively in his film Tusk.
As a singer/song writer, I performed in Europe and Africa.
I worked as music producer and wrote jingles and film scores in Europe and America.
I played guitar in the Sausalito-based improv. band These Are Not My Hands.
Film:
I wrote, directed and produced The Book, a kitsch science fiction feature film (Invasion Of The Body Snatchers meets Flash Gordon) that pays homage to the sci-fi classics of the 70s and 80s.
Official Selection of festivals in America, Australia and Asia, The Book won 13 awards in 2011, and was hailed as “cult material” by critics and festival audiences.
Fine Art:
I freelanced as a graphic artist in Paris and San Francisco, and created whimsical window paintings for businesses and corporations.
Living on the Mendocino coast since 2002, I have been exhibiting my pointillist drawings in local galleries.
In 2015, I began working in acrylic and mixed media.
My Pop art Surrealism style is playful. The subjects are illogical and irrational.
I worked on a series of thematic subjects, such as Mona Lisa, and a whimsical series of lit painted boxes. I’ve developed interactive paintings that invite the viewer to transform the overall image into a myriad of possibilities.